Transmigrating over ten thousand years late, I was forced to become a mighty presence

Chapter 373: Chapter 173 Water Monster_2

Even when reaching certain locations, he would stop and probe the earth below with the Primal Chaos Energy to ascertain the direction of the underlying spirit veins.

The more he observed, the more astonished Shen Yuan became.

Apart from those tombs that hadn’t given birth to wandering souls, the emergence of spiritual wisdom among the small demons on North Mang Mountain was nearly extinct; even the spirit objects born from the Spirit Energy were scarce.

For North Mang Mountain, which possessed spirit veins, this was an absolutely abnormal phenomenon.

It was as if something was invisibly siphoning off the spirit essence of the entire North Mang Mountain, causing the near extinction of all spirit objects and demons.

This was also one of the reasons why no sects and noble families had come to claim North Mang Mountain.

For these sects and noble families, the role of spirit veins was definitely not just for cultivation; a greater use was the spirit objects spawned upon them, as well as the subsequent development of spiritual farms for planting spirit objects.

If a spirit vein couldn’t foster the growth of spirit objects, then it wouldn’t be worth the effort for these sects and noble families to develop it. After all, every day in Great Xia, new spirit veins were being revived. Why not compete for those spirit veins instead?

“Could this be the contingency plan of the Master of North Mang Mountain?”

A curious light flashed in Shen Yuan’s eyes.

The extraction of the spirit essence from a renowned mountain river was no trivial matter, and such an action involved too wide of a web of cause and effect.

North Mang Mountain was not a single mountain, but rather a mountain range covering hundreds of square miles. How many demons and spirit objects could be born there?

Rashly extracting spirit essence and causing the extinction of demons and spirit objects would inevitably bring on a vast amount of propelling forces from cause and effect. Even those on the Demon Path wouldn’t dare to do such a thing.

“Even if the Master of North Mang Mountain is the First Ghost Immortal of the present age, he must pay a tremendous price to accomplish this.

And the heavy price paid to extract the spirit essence further indicates that the current state of the Master of North Mang Mountain is definitely not good.”

As he made his way toward the core of North Mang Mountain, the closer Shen Yuan got to the core, the more evident the traces of spirit essence being extracted became.

When he arrived within a hundred miles of the core area, Shen Yuan even began to feel an unnerving sense of dead silence.

Despite the vicinity having a high density of Spirit Energy and the vegetation being lush and full of vitality, a strange scent of death was spreading.

These thriving plants and animals scurrying through the woods were more like walking corpses rather than living beings.

Out of the blue, Xue Mingzhi, who was following behind, suddenly shivered with an inexplicable chill.

In Gong Buyu’s arms, Bai Xue, who had originally been curiously looking around the mountain forest, seemed to sense something as they got closer to the core. She curled up tightly and burrowed into Gong Buyu’s chest, daring not to take another look at the surroundings.

As night grew deeper, the closer they went, the denser the tombs became, and the sense of missing spirit essence grew stronger.

Finally, less than twenty miles from the core area, Shen Yuan’s expression changed and he stopped in his tracks.

In the desolate deep mountains, Shen Yuan’s Divine Sense could detect wisps of Ghost energy fluctuating within its range.

In the few breaths since he had stopped, the concentration of Ghost energy within the range of his Divine Sense had started to increase dramatically and was spreading towards the outside.

The area covered by the Ghost energy was beginning to transform into a water monster, and even Shen Yuan’s Divine Sense was blocked by it.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

At this rate, it would take only a few days to cover the entire North Mang Mountain.

By then, North Mang Mountain would revert back to the water monster it had been thousands of years ago, becoming a paradise for countless Yin spirits and evil spirits. Life within hundreds of miles would be devastated.

“Is this the ‘delay leads to unexpected changes’ within the Star Astrology Divine Power?”

Shen Yuan’s heart jolted.

If he had waited a few more days for North Mang Mountain to revert back into a water monster, the foundations of the Master of North Mang Mountain would have been sufficient to strip the water monster from the mortal world.

By then, the strangeness of North Mang Mountain could completely bypass the restrictions of the cosmic laws of this world, allowing the Master of North Mang Mountain to act within the water monster.

A Ghost Immortal seated within the water monster would spell absolute doom for the Primal Chaos Realm of today.

Realizing this, a sense of relief couldn’t help but wash over Shen Yuan.

“Thank goodness for the reminders from the Star Astrology Divine Power; it made me aware earlier that the Master of North Mang Mountain might take action as the cosmic laws further recover.

Otherwise, once he gains momentum, even if I pour all of Great Xia’s Imperial Court’s foundations into it, it might not be enough to suppress the water monster.”

With that thought, Shen Yuan turned to Gong Buyu and Xue Mingzhi who were behind him and alerted them:

“Stay close to me and be mindful of your surroundings.”

After speaking, Shen Yuan did not choose to continue measuring the land of North Mang Mountain by foot, but instead directly harnessed the Heaven and Earth’s Primordial Elemental Qi to fly toward the direction of the Ghost energy.

Gong Buyu and Xue Mingzhi did not dare to relax in the slightest and hurriedly followed Shen Yuan.

A distance of ten kilometers was covered in just a few minutes, but in those few minutes, the range of water monster within Shen Yuan’s sight had already spread tens of meters forward, with the grey mist of the Ghost energy swallowing up vast swathes of the forest.

From afar, it looked as though a gargantuan demon had opened its maw to swallow the entire forest.

In Shen Yuan’s eyes shimmered the light of stars; with the aid of Star Astrology Divine Power, he easily penetrated the water monster before him, seeing the scene inside.

A multitude of trees that had their spirit essence extracted began to decay, and their withered trunks and leaves turned into demons. The life within them had their vitality sapped away by the erosion of the water monster, and the fragile Yin spirits appeared only to be devoured by the water monster at the first opportunity.

In truth, under normal circumstances, a newly born water monster wouldn’t corrupt its surroundings so quickly, but since the spirit essence of the whole North Mang Mountain had been exhausted, the beings that had been hollowed of their spirit essence couldn’t withstand the erosion, which was why the water monster was expanding so rapidly.